Mashenka wrote:So. Я сыта по горло с скучной работой или работою. The reason I ask is that I've seen both from some credible Russian learning sites. Also, do you need the "с " with it.

I would've put it like this: Я сыт по горло этой скучной работой. No preposition required. More examples; "Я сыт по горло твоим нытьём".The latter would be an older spelling. I wouldn't recommend using it, because it's quite easy to mistake it for a 1-st person present time for "to work". Only one letter difference. Plus, it sounds kinda off when you hear it.

And, for the case, that would be instrumental indeed.

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That's not an idiom in it's essense, but a exclamation, like "What in tarnation!", quite literally that would mean "firs and sticks!".And might I add, since this is an exclamation, the words don't relate to one another, moreover, it's written with a dash "ёлки-палки", or even "ёлки-иголки" sometimes (as might be seen in Smeshariki (Kikoriki, as they're known in the US), also a recommended series, though a cartoon), which means "firs and needles". The latter rhymes, [yo'lki - igo'lki].

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